Participant Info
- First Name
- Natasha
- Last Name
- Varner
- Country
- United States
- State
- WA Washington
- natashav@email.arizona.edu
- Affiliation
- Website URL
- www.natashavarner.com
- Keywords
- settler colonialism, Mexico, race, immigration, labor, Indigenous history, Japanese American internment
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Natasha Varner is a historian and writer with bylines at Public Radio International, Jacobin, Yes! Magazine, and Crosscut. Her new book, La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2020), addresses questions of nation building and Indigenous representation, erasure, and resistance in Mexican popular culture. In her work as Densho’s Communications and Public Engagement Director she organizes community conversations, learning, and actions that connect histories of racism and xenophobia to contemporary injustices.
- Recent Publications
La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico (University of Arizona Press 2020)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Natasha Varner
- Country Focus
- US and Mexico
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Race, Women
